TRIZ is the acronym for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving." This blog is an experiment in informal TRIZ discussions, about real situations and real problems using TRIZ. Ellen Domb is the founding editor of the TRIZ Journal, http://www.triz-journal.com, and a consultant and instructor in TRIZ, http://www.trizpqrgroup.com, and author of the e-learning system http://bit.ly/b8rcVb.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Dark ages of Innovation?

Thanks to Marco Aurelio Carvahlo for sending the notice about this article to the TRIZ e-mail list. It has sparked a little (surprisingly little?) discussion about the data analysis, which shows that the current rate of innovation, normalized for the world's population, is worse than in the 1600s.